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“WarmUp 2012,” at MOMA PS1.

Photograph by Lauren Lancaster

The Theatre

Fringe Benefits

“FringeNYC,” the birthplace of such hits as “Urinetown” and “Silence! The Musical,” kicks off on Aug. 10. The festival showcases nearly two hundred theatrical productions at twenty downtown venues over two weeks.

Night Life

Talking Cure

The Black Rock Coalition and the Poetry Society of America have teamed up to pay tribute to the pioneering soul-jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron, who died last year. His longtime collaborator Brian Jackson will be joined by Sapphire, Abiodun Oyewole, Sandra St. Victor, Carl Hancock Rux, Gordon Voidwell, and many other musicians and poets on the final night of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival.

Art

Sphere Today

The Brooklyn Museum surveys the twenty-five-year career of the French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, who began his career sculpting in brimstone and is now best known for works incorporating colorful blown-glass spheres.

Classical Music

And They’re Off

The Philadelphia Orchestra renews its decades-long association with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, offering (among other concerts) an evening with the pianist Lang Lang and the orchestra’s new music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Movies

Les Thrillers

The French studio Gaumont has been in the crime business for a century, ever since producing “Fantômas,” Louis Feuillade’s serial about the exploits of a master of planned catastrophe. MOMA offers selections from Gaumont’s extensive police blotter, including Alain Corneau’s “Série Noire,” from 1979, written by the novelist Georges Perec and based on a novel by Jim Thompson, and Sacha Guitry’s comedy “Poison,” from 1951, about an exonerated murderer.